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THE WAR.

GERMANS IN WEST BELGIUM UNEASY.

REMOVING OFFICIAL PAPERS TO BRUSSELS.

RUSSIANS DRIVE BACK

ENEMY.

PORTUGAL AND THE ALLIES. READY TO SEND TROOPS ANYWHERE.

CASEMENT'S APPEAL.

RANDO-BELGIAN FRONT.

THROUGH REUTER'S ADENOY.]

SPOILS OF VICTORY.

'ANOTHER BRITISH THRUST,

LONDON, July 16th,

General Sir Douglas Haig, reporting

[THNOGE REUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH CAVALRY IN ACTION. TROOPERS CHEERED TO THE

ECHO.

LONDON, July 16th. Reuter's correspondent at Headquar- ters, describing a recent British cavalry at 5.95 p.m., "states that except for action, says the Decan Horse and Dra- heavy reciprocal bombardment nothing

goon Guards started early du Friday Important has happened. We continue.

morning to patrol and reconnoitre, and to find large quantities of armament and-

also to co-operate in covering the flanks ather war material abandoned by the

of the attacking infantry. The men in the memy in positions captured on Friday

trenches elicered to the echo as the and Saturday. We took five more heavy howitzers and four fold guns yesterday. through a perfect morass of cratered troopers clattered past. Their route lay

Our troops last night strengthened and

ground, disused trenches, and wreeked improved, our new position, and, covered

entanglements. The Germans spotted by a detachment, thrust forward to High)

the cavalry between Bazentin and Wood, from which they had withdrawn

Mametz, and opened fire with guns and unmolested in the morning.

maxims. Our casualties were few, as the

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ZAL HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JULY 18TMm, 1916.

AUSSIAN FRONT,

· [THROUGH - RZOTER'S AGENCY.]

THE NEAR EAST

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

RUSSIAN PROGRESS ON RIGA SUCCESSFUL BRITISH RAIDS.

FRONT.

PETROGRAD, July 10th. communique states: The Russians right wing on the Riga front, supported by artillery and warships, has slightly

progressed west of Kemmern,

IMPORTANT STRATEGIC POINT STORMED.

PETROGRAD, July, Luth

A communique states: The Russians have stormed. Baiburt, which is the most important strategic paint in Armenia. RUSSIANS DRIVE BACK MASS ATTACKS.

PETROGRAD, July 10th

A communiqué states:-South-east of Struniski, west of Lutsk, the enemy a tacked in masses at many points and were driven back.

The Russians crushed a dusparate resistance in the sectors of Oshoff and Goubine, and began to envelop the enemy, who fled, abandoning several heavy guns and field-guns. Up to the present 3,000 prisoners havr been counted.

LONDON, July 16th." General Murray roporta that two columns operating from Tor and Abu- zenama respectively, on the Sinai shore, in the Gulf of Suor, have returned to their bases after successful raids on enemy forts on the Peninsula. They covered sixty miles of dificult country and captured prisoners and live stuck despite opposition. No asualties were sustained by either column, OEM ERAL.

(THROUGH RAFTEC"A MENCY; }. GERMANS IN WEST BELGIUM UNEASY.

OFFICIAL PAPERS REMOVED.

AMSTERDAM, July 17th..

SITUATION IN CANTON,

CONFLICTING OPINIONS. Writing on July 7th, the Caston corre spondent of the 3. Daily Beurz eit

The Republicans, notwithstanding the sid of General Li Lick-chun, are still The Telegraaf reliably learns from the unable to control the Kwangtung ad- foster that the Germans in West Belministration, although the important gium are most uneasy, and that all sorts points along the North and the Weak of precautions are being taken.

Rivers have come into their passession. The official papers have been removed seroplanes.

They are trying to invado Canton by Ostend to Brussels,

Tuth Lung Chi-kwong, still controlling Canton, has the adyan- THEtage of men and money and the city of

Canton to squeeze from, while the Re publicans are short of bath.

NARKOW ESCAPE OF

from

KING OF GREECE. THE GREAT FIRE IN TATO).

Arass, July 18th. The fire in Tatol forest is still raging HONGKONG. AND THE WAR destroyed. Her Majesty the Queen The Crown Prince's residence has, heen.

(TAROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].

A PREMATURE REPORT.

LONDON, July 18th. According to Reuter's correspondent at Hongkong, it is stated that a conference between the Governor and the unofficial members of the Exceulive and Legislative Councils has agreed to recommenda direct War Contribution to the Imperiul Government.

Republicans are now secretly selling. military bonds here in order to supply: within the next few days as they expect. their fenders should they rater. Canton

.it

Two Kwang forces against the North, s Tan Chen-huan, Commander of the escaped from the Royal chateau carrying openly assisting the Republicans, believ Princess Catherine. His Majesty the ing Kwangtung will never have King remained to the last and escaped republican form of government with with the greatest difficulty Many sal Lung at the head, and that the Peking authorities under Tuan Chi-jui will pay no attention to the demands of the South, unless the Republicans have o strong province to hack them up

diers are missing.

CASEMENTS APPEAL.

LONDON, July 17th. The Court of Criminal Appeal, Justice Darling presiding, began the hearing of [We are officially informed that the Roger Casement's appeal against sen- above statement in premature, no such tence of death for high treason, agreement having been arrived at.-Ed.

Serjeant Sullivan, for appellant, DIRIGIBLE FOR THE TURKS. | indiested that the appeal was based on the grounds, Arstly, that the charge was not, an offence within the statuto cited; secondly, that the Lord Chief Justice's definition of adhering to the King's enemies " was inaccurato.

AMSTERDAM, July 10th..

TROOPS MUCH HEARTENED.

LONDON, July 16th. A telegram from Constantinople says The troops at the Front are greatly Schnettelanz dirigible has arrived heartened by the piercing of the Ger- there, causing the greatest enthusiasm, man second line. For the first time on | PORTUGAL OFFERS TROOPS, the Westera front they say that the evil apell is broken. With the German line. on the British left from Hubut Thiepval practically intact, the troops

PARIS, July 16th.

KAISER IN BATTLE AREA.

AMSTERDAM, July 17th.

An official message from Berlin says

the Portuguese Premier, who states that the Kaiser in at present in the battle

Edair publishes an interview with

Portugal is ready to assist the Allies by

The interference with river traffic by bandits and by warring factions has caused all prices in Canton to rise and many districts are afraid of boing en which they depend. tirely cut off from the larger towns, on

Cantonese fear the worst and many families have begun to move their more valuable belongings to safer quarters,

tion of business men for local defence The militia of the city, an organiza- and mutual protection, has been warned to be ready for service at instant call.

Subsequently this same correspondent wrote

↑ A truce has been declared between

Chun-bouan Lang, Chi-kwong and Li Lich-chuh, “

Lung Chi-kwong has told his friends that he is willing to retire in favour of A Cantonese, but diever in favour of Tsen

Business is at a standstill.

The big

·GERMAN SURPRISE ATTACK. ranks opened out, and some of the further south were individually aware sending troops to France or elsewhere / sector, in the Soinine valley visiting hos-shops are only partly opened and the

FRENCH AVIATORS ACTIVE.

PARIS, July 18th.

Aengaaunigud says South of the

•Soumise last night the Germans, -under eaver of a fog, crept along the Canal and wiolently attacked and captured by sur Trise Liaisonette and Blaches, but we

troopers dismounted and poured in heavy fire from a machine-gun emplace ment, which proved most effective,-

A PLUCKY AVIATOR

a

CIVILIANS.

dolivering speeches, INDIAN MILITARY

that it way up to them" to reach the whenever the Allies desire, the course of Pitals and distributing Iron Crosses and second-line, so as there could be a break events and Portugal's Anatza). resources through All worked in

the most determining the number, feverish manner to be ready for the A British monoplane was most plucky second blow, the rapidity of whose de- | BRITAIN'S HISTORIC EFFORT. When the cavalrymen were fusilladed from livery testified to the wonderful general a dense copse, it swooped down to within ship and organisation. It was the

"CHANCELLOR'S APPEAL TO vigorously counter-attacked and regain three hundred fest of the horsemen and British line regiments, the English, ett hoth, as well as a copse northward, encircled the copse four times till it had Scots, Irish, and the Welgh, assisted by where few Gormans were still holding emptied all the drums of its machine the South Africans, who nehieved the out. We progrossed weat and south of sun and then soured up after signalling feat of smashing the fortifications on redo hard at a grassy bank, whence there which the Germans had spent two years, was a desultory fusillade. Eight Germans and had missed men and guns during emerged howling for mercy and clung to the last ten days to resist us. the horses' legs till the infantry came up NO BRITISH STRAGGLERS, and captured them. The Cavalry, never

Jury, where, besides at Chenois and Talaufoe, there are most intense artillery

duals.

Our aeroplanes have been most active on the Somme. They felled four German

the enemy's position. The Decian Horse

An unprecedented feature of

Loxhos, July 16th.

On the opening of the National War Bavings Week, Mr. McKeann, Chancellor. of the Exchequer, in a letter, points out that it coincides with the opening of the

greatest military effort in British his- tory--not a battle of a day or two, but a long, patien), arduous offensive, de manding-unimaginable sacrifices by our

TRADE FUTURE IN CHINA. GERMAN WARNINGS" AGAINST JAPAN

exodus is renewed.

machines in the enemy lines. Two others losing as much as the Infantry, rodegreat-and-fierce fighting was that there soldiers. He urges civilians to make the apposed "failure to use, in 1914, the local rumours is that the Canton boats dǝ

were badly hit and were obliged to des

right up to the last new German trench, which was deserted with the exception of cend. Fremely air sqaudrona bombed rail-

some few machine gunners. The oppor way stations at Abbecourt, Terugnier,tunity to charge cams near Flers.. Chanmy, Hombleux, and Rois, and also

heavy battery near Roisel.

NEWFOUNDLANDERS LOSE HEAVILY.

LONDON, July 16th. There is a consensus of opinion that the casualties in the great attack were

FIGHTING ON THE MEUSE PARIH, July 17th.

An official reminuniqué says:--Kuns French patrols are most netive in Cham.

“Payne.

Meuse, an enemy tretch east of Hill 304. We captured, or the left bank of the

The Frend on the right bank of the.

were absolutely no strugglers, Men of all classes have done their job with un- faltering gallantry and determiastion. Their work was all the more difficult, as the fighting was all uphill, with a gu dual rise of two hundred feet, with many intervening hallows; yet the Infantry were so keen that they swept over the

darkness first trenches at a single rush. In the at some places they were so far ahend, of schedule time that they

snia compared with such a wonderful Mouse, continued their progress to the had to wait impatiently till the guns

west of Fleury and took prisoners.

A German communiqué admits that the Freuel ontored German trenches to the south-west of Thiaumont.

ITALIAN FRONTJ

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] FIGHTING IN THUNDER,

STORMS

frat. No unit suffered comparably with the Newfoundlanders, whose loggas on the tui inat. were the huariest up to that date, or a London battalion who were second to them also on the 1st Lost Naturally there were sometimes, heavy loses, especially where the wire was not cat and the self-sacrificing first waves. cleayed the way for their sensors. The South Africans were in the forefront

ROME, July 16th. near Foureaux, or High Wood, a heavy fighting in the Posina. Despite vio A communiqué states:-There has been altitude of five hundred feet, the highest lont thunderstorms we progressed south point in the neighbourhood, where the of Borcola and Boite Valley, where the Geramn third line was penetrated, and enemy, strongly reinforced, made several in which a detachment remained all counter-attacks, which were driven" off Saturday night covering those who were with heavy loss. An enemy counter- consolidating the position behind The attack at Tofana was also repulsed. country beyond the ridge which com manded Foureux is loss wooded and broken and more favourable for further operations, RUSSIAN TROOPS":" BAPTISM OF FIRE,"

PARIS, July 16th

AVAL POTIVITIES.

THROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

VESSELS SUNK,

The steamers Reclesia,

LONDON, July 16th.

Allo, and

greatest financial effort in history.

NO USE FOR MAPS.

dustry are now displaying fresh excite The organs of Gorman finanes and ont about the situation in the Far ast. Whereas they have hitherto at aked the Guzman Government for its possibility of an arrangement with Japan, they are now professing dem anxiety about the future of China, and solemnly warning the German publi: against "Germanoph:1 utterances in the Japanese Press.

Despite these ominous reports, it would see that Canton is continuing almost CONTROLspondent interviewed several persis as usual. Yesterday a Daily l'ress corre- LONDON, July 10th

who had just returned to the Colony The Times says that, side by side with have been circulated locally to the effect from Canton, and they seemed surprised to learn of the alarming reports which the thorough reformation of the Indian that the armies of Lung and Li are system of military control, there should opposing each other within a few miles. be emphatic reversion to the obser of the City, that many wounded Care vance of statutes which enjoin that India being brought in, and that Canton is must be governed by the Governor in a greatly troubled state as a conse General-in Council;

quence. One gentleman who had just left a Canton-boat said that he had been spending several days in the old capital, that he had been through the Chinese quarters on several occasions, and noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Buiness was proceeding as usual, the river was they could go into the City without any ampang, and tourists were informed that as full as ever with trading junks, and quales. This view was supported by several others, and an additional fact which also supports this contradiction of not now bring to Hongkong crowds of Canton boats had a full complement of frightened Chinese. A few weeks ago the passengers cach day from Canton as a consequence of the scara occasioned b the approach of the revolutionary armiesz German Conservative circles to enties Canton. Whatever may be happening While chiding the supposed desire of but many of these have now returncil to political end economic proy Thein mystery, And, apparently, has bad Japan by promising her China as her outside of Canton seems in be shroude1 Frankfurter Zeitung says:- things will shape in East Asia after the were interviewed also stated that Cante

no effect upon the Chinese in Cantons It is not yet possible to see how

Various shippers of Canton boals whi war. The balance of power there has that there did not appear to be the least Boomed to be just about as usual, and draw we necessary inferences from that grounds for the rumours referred to. heen shifted, and Germany also will the German fact. Japan has become militarily and politically the first Power in the Far this position. Japan has urgent econo mic needs to satisfy in China, and it The British Press Bureau, on the con- would be foolish if we were to oppose trary, has supplied a photographic rer

them. But the great Chinese market reduction of a map slowing the Germany, the victor in the world war, has must remain open to world trade., Ger man positions captured, which is com

no occasion to leave tu one of her enemies a rich territory in which German trade plete to the smallest detail.

and German industry before the war AMERICAN LEGAL NOMINA-

had staked great hopes.” TION

LONDON, July 16th..

A most significant announcement ap- ears in the semi-oficial fologue Gazette to the effect that it is of little use to publish maps giving the lines or post. tions, because they are so elastic and are repeatedly changing in detail There fore, ou reliable picture can be produced, This is remarkable,

wore lifted. The enemy was apparentlyPapers have hitherto published detailesi | Enst, and Germany will not grudge her BANDMAN OPERA & COMEDY

overwhhod before he could pull himself together, but beyond the first lines the woods were strongly held with maxim- guns and rifles. It was here, that the Jusica were more serious. The whol operation was auccessful beyond our hopen. But the top of the ridge remains to be crossed, and then the German com manding position will be raversed.

CAVALRY'S "DECENT LITTLE

SHOW."

crackin of the small arms of a half troop From behind the waving corn cams thas

each of Dragoons and Deccan Horst, riding in advance in extended order, the former with lances, and the latter with sabres. Trotting sharply, they were ordered to charge. “This was like

maps.

WASHINGTON, July 18th. Mr. Justice Clark, of Ohio, has been

nominated Supreme Judge in sucession to Judge Hughes, the Republican Pre- sidential candidate.

HASHISH FORBIDDEN IN

EGYET

CSERO, July 10th- The Commander-in-Chief has issued a Proclamation which provides for the

The Frankfurt Jewish organ continues in this strain, solemnly discussing the future of China as if Germany had really won the war, as if she were now mag proposals," and as if she must be careful nanimously considering Japanego prace to guard German interests in the

process,

INTERESTING FLORA FROM

CHINA.

Among many attractive exhibits at the Royal Horticultural Society's fortnightly, show, Vincent-square, London, there the Meconopsis simplicifolia, a new was nothing more remarkable than

fessor Balfour, of the Edinburgh and diafinct

sent by Pro form,

“GRUMPY "

Compton Coutts particularly

"Grumpy is the play in which Mr Fuishes himself. He understudied MF. Cyril Maade in this part, at the Hay- market Theatre, and proved an apt popíl of the great master, The rule is one which suits him admirably and to mankes the most of it. Hongkong residents were quick to recognise his ability on the last occasion the Bandman Co. ver special request. There was an apprecia to crowded houses, the second time by here and Grampy was played twice tive audience at the Theatre Royal again yesterday evening, and once more Contts received an ovation, ir. To night The Cinema Star will be given.

BRITISH NORTH BORNEO RED CROSS STAMPS.

the court of directors of the British With reference to the limited issue of Bed Cross postage stamps prepared by North Borneo Company, it may be noted

a dash on the polo-field," said an officer, imposition of a fine of £1,000 (Egyptian) Botanic Gardens. This charming plan that the total issue was divided into three "only the men were too grim to cheer, or five years imprisonment for both) We struck fifteen or twenty beggars, pu anyone attempting to import or

Sylvie have been sunk. The crew of the and thirty more put their hands up. It Assisting, in Egypt or elsewhere, the tast may prove to a hardy plant held by the company, and the remaining.

Allo were saved.

LATER.

The Russian troops received their

was a deceat little show, and it was a baptiane of fire on the Western front;

The ecleria was sunk by submarine in Pity that it was not bigger." The when they attacked the enemy's trenches eighteen of the crew have been landed at help the Infantry to consolidate. A the Mediterranean. The Captain and Cavalrymen were withdrawn at dusk to

Algiers.

pleasing incident in the fight was the The British steamer Silverton has been raderie of the Deccan Horse, who

and took prisoners, who were dumb founded to be in the hands of the Tsar's soldiers in Frauce

Jaink

LONDON, July 16th.

are Mohamedans,

portation of bashish,

DUTCH FOOD SUPPLY.

A meeting of delegates representing

AMSTERDAM, July 17th.

150,000 organised workmen passed a re solution urging the Government to sop

ply and distribute foodstuffs.

aky-blue flower with a golden centre, paris, one third being sent to north of the poppy family, has single which stands up boldly on still stem Borneo for use there, one-third being above the foliage.

a perennial, and is third was given to the National Philatelic one of the interesting specimens of the War Fund. A sub-committee of this Hora of East Thibet, of which other fund (which is in aid of the Red Crossy examples, also exhibited, were pollected has divided up the stamps into twenty

in his industrious exploration of North- parcel contains ten complete sets from 0.1 by Captain Bailey, of the Indian Army, sight equal parcels, each comprising 195 Another welcome newcomer is the Iris stamps, and offers them for sale to the chrysographes, discovered by Mr. Wilson trade at 215 for each parcel. Each rich velvet purple, was shown by Mr. J. plus of the lower denominations. The ern China. This graceful, hárdy iris, of to c.25 together with a considerable sur C Allgrove, who also brought the new British North Borneo Company has Chinese, przony Delavayi, of shaded crum-dertaken not to reprint or re-ISSUE ARY son, &C. Bepress

more of these stampa,